Oceans of Kinfolk is a database, built by Kinfolkology Co-Founder Jennie K. Williams, of the coastwise traffic of enslaved people in the antebellum United States. The first edition of Oceans of Kinfolk includes the names of more than 63,000 enslaved men, women and children trafficked to New Orleans from domestic ports between 1818 and 1860. Dr. Williams is currently revising that edition in order to add missing transcriptions, correct previous mistakes, and insert images of the original documents into the manifest. This process requires careful, manual review of every single record, and so it will take some time to complete. Once each record is reviewed, it is added to this page, the Second Edition of Oceans of Kinfolk.